Ayurveda is the science of life. It teaches us to get closer to nature. It emphasizes not only on the cure of diseases, but also on the preventive aspects of it. Ancient people have prescribed a lot of wisdom for us to follow to lead a healthy life.
If we understand the wisdom of Ayurveda properly and observe our own selves in terms with nature, we might not fall sick at all. Now a days problems like heart diseases, arthritis are becoming very common. That is all due to not paying enough attention to our body needs. Even the treatment for these is confined only up to managing the symptoms; the basic factor which has been the cause of the disease is entirely neglected. Hence, because of this, many new serious diseases are coming up everyday and modern science is bringing out various potent drugs on a daily basis to manage these conditions.
Whereas Ayurveda is concerned, there are certain factors which have been known to be the root cause of health and also of diseases. Those factors are known as doshas. These doshas when are in balanced proportions grant health to the individual whereas slight imbalance in these cause the illness. So the most basic thing an Ayurvedic physician does whenever the person comes for treatment is to try and balance the doshas i.e. he is indirectly treating the root cause of the disease and not managing the symptoms only. Hence because of this, there is no relapse of any illness and inspite of how many number of disease keep cropping daily, an Ayurvedic physician can easily manage them with the medicines at his disposal by selecting them on the basis of person’s constitution.. He does not need to go out and look for new medicine for new disease.
Even if we look at the definition of Health according to ayurveda, we develop a new respect for the foresight of our forefathers. It states that a person can be labeled as healthy only if all the body constituents including doshas are balanced, his metabolism is proper, all his vital functions are normal, the waste products are excreted from his body in a normal way, he is mentally healthy, free of stress or distress, all his senses are functioning properly, his mind is clear and his soul or spirit is appreciating the beauty of things around him. This clearly shows that Ayurveda stresses on the basic things only even while defining a thing such as health.
For keeping the doshas in balance, we should have proper knowledge of prakruti ie.our constitution, how changes in nature affect us. Similarly the diet which we take daily has a great deal to do with our health. One thing might be good for a particular individual, but the same thing might cause trouble for other.
All this and many more things,we will discuss later in detail.
